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Message-ID: <20080213204818.GA9939@kroah.com> Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2008 12:48:18 -0800 From: Greg KH <greg@...ah.com> To: Dirk GOUDERS <hank@...bocholt.fh-gelsenkirchen.de> Cc: bzolnier@...il.com, muli@...ibm.com, discuss@...-64.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-ide@...r.kernel.org, jdmason@...zu.us, linux-pci@...ey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz Subject: Re: [discuss] "ide=reverse" do we still need this? On Wed, Feb 13, 2008 at 09:00:15PM +0100, Dirk GOUDERS wrote: > > > Hm, so, to summarize: > > - you needed this option many years ago to get a box to work properly > > - you don't need this today > > > > So, if the option went away, you would not be inconvenienced? > > After having reanimated the old system and after comments of other > persons I would not be inconvenienced if the option went away. > > The system indeed did not boot correctly without that option, because > the disks appeared in a wrong order. On the other hand, I was able to > (re)install bootloaders (grub as well as lilo) and after that did not > need the option any more. Unfortunately, after that I was not able to > reproduce the initial situation where the option was needed. Great, thanks a lot for testing this, and letting us know. greg k-h -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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